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German and Israeli Innovation: The Best of Two Worlds
This study reviews – through desk research and expert interviews with Mittelstand companies, startups and ecosystem experts – the current status of the Israeli startup ecosystem and the Mittelstand region of North Rhine- Westphalia (NRW), Germany. As a case study, it highlights potential opportunities for collaboration and analyzes different engagement modes that might serve to connect the two regions.
The potential synergies between the two economies are based on a high degree of complementarity. A comparison of NRW’s key verticals and Israel’s primary areas of innovation indicates that there is significant overlap in verticals, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), sensors and cybersecurity. Israeli startups can offer speed, agility and new ideas, while German Mittelstand companies can contribute expertise in production and scaling, access to markets, capital and support. The differences between Mittelstand companies and startups are less pronounced than those between startups and big corporations. However, three current barriers to fruitful collaboration have been identified: 1) a lack of access, 2) a lack of transparency regarding relevant players in the market, and 3) a lack of the internal resources needed to select the right partners, often due to time constraints or a lack of internal expertise on this issue.
To ensure that positive business opportunities ensue, Mittelstand companies and startups alike have to be proactive in their search for cooperation partners and
draw on a range of existing engagement modes (e.g., events, communities, accelerators). The interviews and the research conducted for this study made clear that no single mode of engagement can address all the needs and challenges associated with German-Israeli collaboration
Epistemología de la comunicación en India: Una aproximación histórica más allá del “desarrollo”
This paper attempts to outline various recent
contributions that can illustrate in developing an
epistemological understanding of Communication in
India, which is a country that could be considered
as a continent due to its demography and territorial
extension; but more importantly, due to its multiculturality, multilingualism, and strong cultural roots
that transcend beyond colonising and neocolonising
processes. It is assumed that conventional
contemporary understanding of Communication
is oriented toward the conquest of modernity and
Western development from principles of Eurocentric
rationality. Certain divergences and contradictions
are observed here by drawing evidences from
the indigenous cultures of the Indian society. The
recent writings and contributions provide enormous
intellectual resources to formulate a knowledge
perspective that emerges from the critique of
the conventional utilitarian understanding of
communication and helps to formulate a critical epistemological perspective of communication in India.
In this paper, we describe various contributions to the
communication research in India, and the influence
that development as an economic concept had on
culture, resulting from the influence exerted by
communication. Additionally, this article documents
participatory approaches that are also original in
the search for holistic and endogenous solutions in
communication in India, and that follow a critical
cultural perspective of their own.En este trabajo se intentan esbozar diversas
contribuciones recientes que pueden ilustrar en
el desarrollo de una comprensión epistemológica
de la Comunicación en India, un país que en sí
mismo es un continente por demografía y extensión
territorial, pero sobre todo por su multiculturalidad,
multilingüismo y sus fuertes raíces culturales que
trascienden más allá de los procesos colonizadores y
neocolonizadores. Entendiendo que la comprensión
convencional contemporánea de la comunicación
está orientada a la conquista de la modernidad y el
desarrollo occidental desde principios de racionalidad
eurocéntrica, observamos divergencias y contradicciones evidenciadas desde la cultura autóctona de la
sociedad india. Los escritos y contribuciones recientes
proporcionan enormes recursos intelectuales para
formular una perspectiva del conocimiento desde la
crítica de la comprensión utilitarista de la comunicación
y a formular una perspectiva crítica epistemológica de
la Comunicación en India.
En este artículo se describen las contribuciones
de la investigación en comunicación en India y la
influencia que el desarrollo como concepto económico
tuvo en la cultura desde la influencia ejercida por la
comunicación. A partir de ahí se documentan enfoques
participativos originales en la búsqueda de soluciones
holísticas y endógenas en la comunicación en India
desde una perspectiva cultural crítica y propia
Innovative Asia: Advancing the Knowledge-Based Economy - Highlights of the Forthcoming ADB Study Report
[Excerpt] The development of knowledge-based economies (KBEs) is both an imperative and an opportunity for developing Asia. It is an imperative to sustain high rates of growth in the future and an opportunity whereby emerging economies can draw from beneficial trending developments that may allow them to move faster to advance in global value chains and in position in world markets.
Over the last quarter of a century, driven mostly by cheap labor, developing countries in Asia have seen unprecedented growth rates and contributions to the global economy. Sustaining Asia’s growth trajectory, however, requires developing economies to seek different approaches to economic growth and progress, especially if they aspire to move from the middle-income to the high-income level. KBE is an important platform that can enable them to sustain growth and even accelerate it.
It is time for Asia to consolidate and accelerate its pace of growth. Asia is positioned in a unique moment in history with many advantages that can serve as a boost: to name a couple, an expanding middle of the pyramid—Asia is likely to hold 50% of the global middle class and 40% of the global consumer market by 2020; and the growing importance of intra-regional trade within Asia, increasing from 54% in 2001 to 58% in 2011. Many developing economies are well placed to assimilate frontier technologies into their manufacturing environment
DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN DIGITAL ECONOMY: THE ECOSYSTEM STRATEGY FOR STARTUPS GROWTH
The transition of the economies towards the digital economy is determining the arising of a type of entrepreneurship based on factors and characteristics widely different from traditional game rules. These changes disclose a series of opportunities for those firms which will be able to adapt at the new parameters and functionalities related to digital technologies diffusion. This contribution underlines some dynamics that should be considered from policy makers who aspire, on the one hand, to promote the emergence of a significant number of startups operating in the digital field and, on the other hand, to nurture the growth process of startups into scale ups. Due to social and economic troubles of many western areas, this latter aspect is even more important. According to a flourishing research stream on entrepreneurship, an interpretative approach to achieving the dual objective is to implement a specific strategy to create an appropriate regional ecosystem. This ecosystem represents a clear change within entrepreneurial policies frame, whose results have so far often been unsatisfactory. Despite its initially selective approach, from an ecosystem many potential benefits can descend. However, creating an ecosystem for digital startup is a complex and burdensome task, which requires a safe and competent guidance, as well as the active involvement of many local actors
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CREATIVE ECONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FORMATION OF AN INNOVATIVE BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM
The aim of the study is to analyze the theoretical basis of creative economy and its development trends in the context of innovative business ecosystems formation. The scientific novelty of the research consists in solving the most important scientific and applied problem - further development of theoretical provisions of creative economy, ecosystems, as well as substantiation of the conceptual approach to the formation of innovative business ecosystem as a coherent management model. In the process of research, general scientific and special methods were used: scientific abstraction, deduction, analysis and synthesis, system and critical analysis, structural-logical, ascending from the abstract to the concrete, and statistical analysis. It has been substantiated that the priority development of creative economy as a strategic driver of sustainable development is the formation of an ecosystem conducive to the development of complex non-linear dynamic innovation processes, development of value propositions and value chain. The analysis of theoretical and methodological aspects of formation and functioning of ecosystems indicates the lack of development of this problem and the need to develop scientific approaches to their identification. Generalization of the results of theoretical analysis allowed us to group ecosystems according to the identified attributes into five main types. It was substantiated that a sustainable business ecosystem is a favorable environment for innovation to increase its value and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals. It is proposed to consider a sustainable "business ecosystem" as a coherent management model with established characteristics, which describes an aggregate system of business ecosystem modules that interact with each other and are focused on co-creation and co-production of value.
Towards Sustainable Cities
Purpose – Cities drive urban, social and economic development and select a path for sustainability following a smart approach. Cities should evolve as smart communities understanding the potential of information technology to support collaboration between public and private organizations in order to improve urban competitiveness, sustain innovation and ensure the quality of life. The aim of this study is to identify the dimensions leading cities to sustainability: developing a smart approach; sustaining the role of municipal institutions for building smart governance; promoting education, learning and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – As smart communities, cities use technology to develop smartness and sustainability for knowledge and innovation. This study is based on archival and qualitative data drawn by literature review and analysis on smart and sustainable cities and communities. Originality/value – Cities promoting a smart approach should select a path for sustainability. Identifying dimensions driving cities to develop as sustainable cities and communities helps to identify knowledge source for innovation and urban growth. Practical implications – As smart and sustainable communities, cities should encourage partnerships between private and public actors in order to provide services, create and ensure high quality of life. As communities, cities should support people by sustaining learning and education, developing smart institutions of governance to design policies driving sustainable urban growth and development
The global information technology report 2014
Executive summary
When The Global Information Technology Report (GITR) and the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) were created more than 13 years ago, the attention of decision makers was focused on how to develop strategies that would allow them to benefit from what Time Magazine had described as “the new economy”: a new way of organizing and managing economic activity based on the new opportunities that the Internet provided for businesses.
At present, the world is slowly emerging from one of the worst financial and economic crises in decades, and policymakers, business leaders, and civil society are looking into new opportunities that can consolidate growth, generate new employment, and create business opportunities.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) continue to rank high on the list as one of the key sources of new opportunities to foster innovation and boost economic and social prosperity, for both advanced and emerging economies.
For more than 13 years, the NRI has provided decision makers with a useful conceptual framework to evaluate the impact of ICTs at a global level and to benchmark the ICT readiness and usage of their economies
The Abertay Code Bar – unlocking access to university-generated computer games intellectual poperty
Progress report on a digital platform and dual licensing model developed to unlock access to a University repository of new and legacy computer games based Intellectual Property (IP) assets for educational and commercial use. The digital creative industries have been identified by a number of governments as a priority area in delivering sustainable economic growth. Code Bar is an innovation that allows digital products to be commercially successful beyond the end of the Dare competition or coursework submission. To be selected for Code Bar, game products must be well designed for both player and market; technically robust (i.e. operating consistently and reliably on a single/multiple platforms), and be free from ambiguity around 3rd party IP. We describe various technical, pedagogic and legal challenges in developing the digital platform, licensing model and packaging of computer games products for release through the platform. The model is extendable beyond computer games to other software products
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